| NAMES AS RECORDED IN THE REGISTER. | |||||
| In how many yrs. | No. | In how many yrs. | No. | ||
| Febris | 21 | 74 | Hydrops | 13 | 4 |
| Variola | 8 | 56 | Colica | 9 | 12 |
| Tabes | 23 | 70 | Partus | 7 | 11 |
| Rubeola | 4 | 8 | Sabito | 16 | 20 |
| Tussis ferina | 2 | 5 | Scrofula | 2 | 2 |
| Morbus gutturis | 2 | 5 | Accidents | 7 | 13 |
| Tussis | 5 | 7 | Ditto in mines | 8 | 9 |
| Asthma | 8 | 9 | Unknown | 544 | |
| Total diseases, 381——Unknown, 544——Total. 875. | |||||
Note.—As the names of the diseases in the two foregoing tables
(B and C) are exactly as they are recorded in the parish registers, by
the clergymen, who were not of the medical profession, some allowance
must be made for incorrect or false nomenclature. In the more common
diseases, however, especially contagious and Epidemical disorders,
such as fever, small-pox, measles, &c. there seems hardly any grounds
for questioning their authenticity, as it is very improbable that the
resident clergyman could be mistaken in such well known complaints.
In several other instances, it is sufficiently evident that the diseases
must be improperly named, as, for example, in the case of "Mortification,"
in the St. Paul table, and of "Capitis dolor," in the St. Hilary.
These authentic records are, nevertheless, very valuable.
ART. II.—0BSERBVATIONS ON PARTICULAR DISEASES.
I. EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Continued Fever, or Typhus.—A reference to the foregoing tables is sufficient to prove the great prevalence of the common continued epidemic lever of this country, variously-denominated contagious fever, typhus, &c. in the town and immediate vicinity of Penzance, during the period comprehended by them. And I am enabled, by my own observation during part of the same period, and by the
